Dip Dye Watercolor Butterfly Thinking of You Cards

Hello! Dropping by this morning with a quick card. I am super excited to be part of the Online Card Classes Spring Card Camp as a Guest - but I also thought it would be fun to play along with some of the lessons when I have time as well! This is for Day 8 of the class. You can find all the supplies I used linked at the bottom of this post! Oh - and you can go HERE to check out the card camp, it's not too late to sign up - you can always go back and go through the class even at a later time!

This day's lessons was perhaps one of my favorites! Faux Dip Dye watercolor - something I have always tried to recreate and never been this successful! I did the backgrounds two different ways, then added some tiny frames, layered die cut butterflies, and a sentiment from the most recent Simon Says Stamp Card Kit. Here are some more photos and close ups:

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Birthday Foliage Trio - Simon Says Stamp

This month seems to be the month of trios of cards using my Simon Says Stamp supplies, and today is no different, except instead of building my sympathy card stash as I needed to earlier this month, I realized I was a bit low on birthday cards this past weekend, so thought I should spend a bit of time working those! Pair that up with a new stamp set that I hadn't used yet, and the urge to pull out my watercolors and play, and these cards are the result!

I first stamped all my images from the Be Kind stamp set on panels of Arches Cold Pressed watercolor paper. I really should pull out this high quality watercolor paper more often - I really love it, and it totally makes a difference on my watercoloring!

I stamped all the images in black, and offset them on the panel so that they were slightly off the edges in some way, leaving room for the sentiments later.

I had fun mixing and matching up different color combos using my Daniel Smith watercolors - I almost think this monochromatic blue is my favorite...although it certainly is a hard choice!

Once all the images dried, I stamped the sentiment from Sketched Flowers on the panels using my MISTI, then carefully matted the panels in a thin border of black cardstock before mounting on cream cardbases - the perfect tone match for that watercolor cardstock.

As a final finishing touch, I added a good heavy coat of Glossy Accents to each of the leaves on each card - just a *tiny* bit of texture, but I love the dimension and shine it adds to the finished cards!

I think I will be playing with this design again - these leaves are so very fun to watercolor!

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Watercolor Candy Canes - Simon Says Stamp Candy Cane Background

Good moring! I'm back this morning to share another card using a gorgeous background from the Fabulous NEW Cheer and Joy Release from Simon Says Stamp, paired up with a sentiment from an older stamp set. The new Candy Cane Background stamp was so fun to use on my other card from last week featuring some no-line watercoloring with Zig markers (you can see that post HERE) - that I thought I would try it with gold heat embossing and watercoloring as well! I can't decide which I like better!

This time I heat embossed the image on a panel of Arches watercolor paper in gold, and colored it in with my Daniel Smith watercolors. I love using a heat embossed image for watercoloring - the edges of the heat embossing make it so fun to shade and blend and help stay in the lines!

Once the background dried, I trimmed it down and adhered it to a white cardbase, then added a sentiment from the same stamp set as last week's card - Christmas Essentials. For this sentiment, I stamped and heat embossed it in gold on a panel of white cardstock, trimmed it down, then dipped the edges of that tiny panel in clear embossing ink, sprinkled on a bit of gold embossing powder, and heat set that as well. I love the rustic gold edge that added! 

Mounted that with foam adhesive, and then embellished with a few Pretty Pink Posh Gold jewels to finish off! If you looked at last week's card, I'd love to hear which is your favorite!

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No Line Coloring with Zig Markers - Simon Says Stamp Candy Cane Background

 Good moring! I'm back this morning to share another card using a gorgeous background from the Fabulous NEW Cheer and Joy Release from Simon Says Stamp, paired up with a sentiment from an older stamp set. The new Candy Cane Background stamp was so fun, I thought it would be a treat to try my hand at some no line watercoloring with a different medium than I've used before - Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers - and it is such a bold and unique look!

I started off by stamping the background on Arches Watercolor paper with my MISTI using Antique Linen Distress Ink. I then started slowly coloring in the image bit by bit...this definitely took a while, but I think it was so worth it! This was the first time I used my Zig markers without any water to blend - just leaving the colors nice and rich and bold.

Once I finished that, I trimmed the panel down to the size of an A2 cardfront. I heat embossed a sentiment from Christmas Essentials Stamp Set in gold on a strip of vellum, and wrapped it around the panel, before adhering the entire panel to a white cardbase.

Finished off with a few Pretty Pink Posh Metallic Gold Jewels to bring in a bit more sparkle!

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Thoughts and Prayers Watercolor

Good morning. I recently found myself in need of a couple of sympathy cards - I usually try to have those on hand so I don't have to make them at the moment I need them, but this time I didn't have any ready. I did have a new stamp set from Wplus9 that I really wanted to try, as well as a Hero Arts/SSS set that is quickly becoming a favorite. With help from my MISTI, I was easily able to create two cards and just change the colors.

This was my first time pulling out and using my Arches Watercolor paper - and I really liked it!

I added some splatters of the white pearl and black just from my watercolor palette.

That Mama Elephant scallop has become one of my favorites as well.

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Wplus9 BEAUTIFUL BOUQUET DAHLIA Clear Stamps CLWP9BBD RESERVE Hero Arts Exclusive PRAYERS Stamps and Dies Set SRHA15 Tsukineko VersaFine ONYX BLACK Ink Pad VF-82 Simon Says Stamp STITCHED RECTANGLES Wafer Dies sssd111455 In Stitches Arches COLD PRESS WATERCOLOR PAD 9x12 inches 012852 Mama Elephant BASIC SET Dies MEBasicSet *Sakura KOI MEDIUM WATERBRUSH Water Brush Watercolor #6 Zig Kuretake Gansai Tambi 36 COLOR SET MISTI PRECISION STAMPER Stamping Tool Whole Kit and Kaboodle Simon Says Stamp Card Stock 100# FOG Gray FG27 Simon Says Stamp Card Stock 100# BLACK Black8 Scor-Tape 1/2 Inch Crafting Tape Sizzix BIG SHOT MACHINE Gray And White 660425

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